Just trying to set up a secondary user after install on 12.04. My last system was 10.04 and it allowed me to create a new user with an encrypted home partition but when creating a new user on 12.04 there is no option to encrypt home partition. Do I need to install another package or am I missing something?

Thanks for the reply, I will give this a try soon.
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user60876May 17 '12 at 6:22

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@Richard Did you run useradd or adduser? Both commands exist, but adduser is the one you want. (Also you'll need to run it as root with sudo, i.e., sudo adduser --encrypt-home username.)
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Eliah KaganJun 1 '12 at 5:42

Then go to dash and search for Users and Groups. Add a new user and check "Encrypt home folder to protect sensitive data".
Remember to take extra precautions if you don't want sensitive data to leak into the log files (eg. /var/log/), temp files (eg. /tmp), the swap space, etc.